{"id":14313,"date":"2019-08-18T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14313"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:06:35","slug":"nigeria-beat-south-africa-3-0-in-african-games-group-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-beat-south-africa-3-0-in-african-games-group-opener","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria beat South Africa 3-0 in African Games group Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria thrashed South Africa 3-0 in their opening group B game at the 2019 African Games Women\u2019s football event.<\/p>\n<p>Two first half goals by Captain Monday Gift (5\u2032) and Zainab Olapade (41\u2032) set the Christopher Danjuma well on their way to a comfortable win.<\/p>\n<p>There was no looking back for the team from that point and four minutes after the hour mark, Cynthia Aku smashed home a header to complete the rout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fulltime Score: ?? 0 \u26bd ?? 3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfricanGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AfricanGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SAFA.net (@SAFA_net) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAFA_net\/status\/1162784066204250113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The win shoots Nigeria to the top of the group and are just a game away from reaching the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_bottom td_uid_8_5d598e688f8a9_rand td_block_template_1\">\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria thrashed South Africa 3-0 in their opening group B game at the 2019 African Games Women\u2019s football event. 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There was no looking back for the team from that point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[468,116,122,441],"class_list":["post-14313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-afcon","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria beat South Africa 3-0 in African Games group Opener - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-beat-south-africa-3-0-in-african-games-group-opener\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria beat South Africa 3-0 in African Games group Opener\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria thrashed South Africa 3-0 in their opening group B game at the 2019 African Games Women\u2019s football event. 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